Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:13:57 +0200 From: Frank Reppin <frank@undermydesk.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: [if_re.c] INTEL mini/itx DE945GSEJT Message-ID: <4A78C0B5.8080808@undermydesk.org>
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Hi all, just purchased the above mentioned board: http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GSEJT/D945GSEJT-overview.htm and this board claims to come with a so called: Realtek 8111D network (10/100/1000m) chipset onboard. Digging in -current and google.com/ncr revealed that this certain board/nic seems to be not supported by the -CURRENT- if_re.c provided by FreeBSD. Some further investigations reveals that OpenBSD claims to support this (most prolly) precious chipset (8111D) within their 4.5 release: http://www.openbsd.org/45.html (searching for 8111D will point you to re(4)) My question(s) is(are): a) does anyone run this board without flaws on fbsd-current with its intergrated 8111D NIC ( my 'failover' option is to run this board using xl thanks to it's pci slot) b) if a) doesn't apply - how did you get it working on current/stable without another driver c) OpenBSD mentions this one ( 8111D support ) in their release notes for a _stable_ version ( 4.5 )- but I cannot even see support for this specific device in FreeBSD trunk/head d) realtek itself does provide drivers for even FreeBSD (sources)... ... are there any experiences using those drivers To make a long story short/and to be honest... ... I'd like to see native support in at least -current. TIA, frank reppin -- http://www.undermydesk.org
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